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The compleated autobiography

A lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Contributors: Skousen, Mark.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Lanham, MD : Regnery Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.
Subjects and Genres:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > To 1775.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
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Table of Contents:
  • First mission to England, 1757-62
  • Return to Philadelphia, 1762-64
  • Second mission to England, 1764-75
  • Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-76
  • Minister to France, 1776-78 : the Treaty of Alliance
  • Minister to France, 1778-79 : an ambassador's life
  • Minister to France, 1779-81 : the war continues
  • Minister to France, 1781-83 : Peace Treaty with England
  • Minister to France, 1783-85 : my last years in Paris
  • The creation of a new nation, 1785-87
  • My final years, 1787
  • Last will and testament of Benjamin Franklin, 1788-89.

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